介绍：1850年，一个遥远的法属小岛发生了一桩命案，醉了酒的渔夫（埃米尔·库斯图里卡 Emir Kusturica饰）犯下杀人罪，被判以极刑然而这里山高皇帝远，没有铡刀之类的行刑工具，于是岛上的官员们求助于法国本部，让他们千里迢迢运来断头台。　　在这个等待的时间里，博爱善良的上尉夫人（朱丽叶·比诺什 Juliette Binoche饰）相信渔夫是一个本质不坏的人。她自从跟随丈夫来到这个荒凉的小岛之后，就一直料理着花园。如今她让渔夫帮她修整花园，干各种琐碎的家务活。渔夫和上尉夫人一同行善，还得到了居民的欢迎。上尉（丹尼尔·奥德耶 Daniel Auteuil饰）知道两人相处得日渐融洽，甚至萌生爱意，但出于对妻子无私的爱，他只是默默选择让妻子得到快乐。　　日子渐渐过去，断头台终于送到。上尉、上尉夫人和渔夫，也迎来了各人命运的转折。

介绍：Paris, 1315. The Tour de Nesle, a guard tower on the banks of the Seine, has become a symbol of mystery and fear. Each morning, at its base, the bodies of handsome young aristocrats are found floating in the river, all butchered by sword or arrow. One evening, two noblemen, Buridan and Philippe d'Aulnay, find themselves in the infamous tower, lured there on the expectation of a night of unbridled passion. Little do they realise that they are to be the next victims of a woman who is determined to take revenge against all men - Margaret of Burgundy, the present Queen of France. Although Philippe is killed, Buridan escapes, and intends to blackmail the Queen. Unless she makes him her prime minister, he will expose her crimes to Philippe's brother and her husband, King Louis X. When she moves to eliminate Burdan, Margaret makes a terrible discovery...　　In the twilight years of his long and pretty uneven career, the great avant-garde film director Abel Gance made a number of films which, whilst not as grand and artistically inspired as his early silent masterpieces (La Roue (1923), Napoléon (1927)), still compared very favourably with the work of his contemporaries.　　Of these, La Tour de Nesle is a film that still stands up remarkably well today - an ambitious historical drama based on the famous 1832 play by Alexandre Dumas. It makes a nice companion piece to Gance's subsequent historical romp, Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964).　　　　Needless to say, the film isn't to be commended on its historical accuracy. As any historian will tell you, the Alexandre Dumas version of French history is wildly fanciful, to say the least. However, this doesn't prevent La Tour de Nesle from being an entertaining and, at times, highly poignant, piece of cinema.　　Whilst the characterisation and dialogue leave much to be desired, the plot (a murky tale of cruel revenge and political intrigue) is gripping, and the film's artistic design is exceptional for a film of this period. Gance brings a strangely expressionistic touch to his use of colour and shade, something which adds to the darkly sinister nature of the plot, whilst imbuing the film with a striking sense of historical realism. A propos, Gance's assistant director Nelly Kaplan makes her screen début in a small role, shortly before she herself embarked on a successful film making career.

介绍：玛姬（艾米丽·沃森 Emily Watson 饰）和汤姆（伊弗兰·梅勒蒂斯 Ifan Meredith 饰）是一对感情十分要好的兄妹父亲爱德华（伯纳德·希尔 Bernard Hill 饰）破产后，汤姆被迫放弃了优渥的留学机会，靠着自己的双手努力支撑起整个家庭的负担，妹妹玛姬亦从一个衣食无忧的天真女孩成长为了勤劳贤惠的女人，最终，汤姆终于攒够了钱赎回了磨坊。　　玛姬和律师的儿子菲利普（詹姆斯·弗莱恩 James Frain 饰）相互抱有好感，但汤姆却认为律师正是造成他们家破人亡的罪魁祸首，因而极力反对妹妹同其交往。之后，不幸的玛姬又爱上了表妹的未婚夫，暴怒的汤姆将她逐出门外。一场暴雨引发了洪水泛滥，汤姆被困在磨坊之中，玛姬心急如焚。

介绍：在鼎盛时期的奥约帝国，权势滔天的首相加甚至凌驾于自己拥立的国王之上，但最终却死于他自己的血亲之手

介绍：Ukrainia - October 1941 - A small group of scattered German soldiers occupies a beautiful little settlement of Russia-Germans. There are only about a dozen women, a few children and old people left in the village, who welcome the Nazi soldiers happily as liberators, hopefully getting rescued from the impending Russian deportation.Even the young Nazi soldiers appear to be ordinary human beings with a civilian past, joking and fooling around. Both groups peacefully get closer and become nearly friends.But then there happens an assault a young woman gets killed by the Nazi officer, and in return the officer gets killed in self-defense by another settler. Now the situation changes, the villagers and the former seemingly friendly German soldiers start to torture and execute each other. Like in a counting-out rhyme, one by one of both sides drops down dead.Soldiers and civilians become cruel and brutal killers, committing crimes they surely won't tell their grandchildren...